Egg-box.



O. B. KLEFEKER.

EGG BOX. A PPLIOATION FILED JULY 22,1909.

Patented May 10, 1910.

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The hinge member 19 is not a part of the present invention and is shown only to illustrate the adaptability of the present invention to an egg box where it is desirable that the partition members should be a substantially permanent portion of the said egg box.

Because of the central fold of the cross members 12 and the hinge movement. of these members at the point of intersection with the longitudinal members it) and ll, the said members 10 and ll may be brought together without relative longitudinal dis placement, the cross members readily folding up against the longitudinal members and peri'nitting the latter to be brought into close relation, being separated only by the folded up middle portion of the cross members.

The folded up partition members do not take a greater space longitudinally than when in the extended position, and this makes the type of partition structure shown in the drawings particularly adapted to use in mnnection with foldable egg boXes ot' the character shown in the drawings.

While the invention is more particularly intended for use in connection with bones holding a dozen each, it is also adapted to egg crates by increasing the numan axis at right angles to the length of the longitudinal partition, each cross partition being also ioldable upon itself intermediate oi" adjacent longitudinal partitions and the entire structure folding without relative longitudinal movement of the longitudinal partitions.

2. A partition structure for egg boxes comprising longitudinal partitions in parallel relation, and transverse or cross parti tions in pivotal connection with the longitudinal partitions and each foldable upon itself at an intermediate point between tWo adjacent longitudinal partitions.

3. A foldable partition structure for egg boxes comprising longitudinal partitions in parallel relation and transverse or cross partitions in pivotal connection with and intersecting the longitudinal partitions, each cross partition being foldable upon itself at an intermediate point between two adjacent longitudinal partitions and there cut away for a portion of the length of the fold.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHAS. B. KLEFEKER. .lVitnesses:

CARL K. VA Errnn, En'nns'r F. Fox. 

